Marine Protected Areas (MPA) assessment areas buffer zones - version 2, May 2020

The present dataset includes three buffer zones used to calculate statistics on Marine Protected Areas (MPA) coverage in EU's marine waters. The three buffer zones layers correspond to "Near shore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (0-1 nautical miles)", "Territorial MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (1-12 nautical miles)" and "Offshore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (beyond 12 nautical miles to the edge of EU waters)".

The dataset is based on the 2nd version of the dataset of MPA assessment areas assembled in 2020 by ETC/ICM harmonised with the Coastline and European Seas layers.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2020-05-21
Date (Creation)
2020-05-18
Edition

02.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_mpa-assessment-areas-buffers_p_2020_v02_r00

Citation identifier
DAT-250-en

Status
Superseded
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time position
2020-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

GEMET

  • marine biodiversity

  • ecosystem

  • sea water protection

  • protected marine zone

  • environmental policy

  • marine ecosystem

  • policy instrument

  • region

  • Marine Strategy Framework Directive

  • biodiversity

  • marine environment

  • marine conservation area

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

  • Black Sea

  • Baltic Sea

  • Mediterranean Sea

Spatial scope

  • European

EEA Management Plan

  • 2021 1.6.1

EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference
Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_mpa-assessment-areas-buffers_p_2020_v02_r00/

OnLine resource

Direct download

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

The sources for this data set are the 2nd version of the MPA assessment areas and the coastline for analysis datasets. This dataset contains three buffer zones, corresponding to Near shore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (0-1 nautical miles), Territorial MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (1-12 nautical miles) and Offshore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (beyond 12 nautical miles to the edge of EU waters) datasets split by EU MSFD regions/subregions. The buffer zones were calculated using the coastline layer as reference, which was then intersected with the assessment areas. The topological errors (gaps & overlaps) have been removed from the dataset.

The delineation of the MPAs assessment areas was done based on the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) regions and subregions dataset and the EU Member States marine waters reported to EEA's Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR) under the MSFD.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
54c48b2d-36ff-4ae3-a036-4a62d8cf7339

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/54c48b2d-36ff-4ae3-a036-4a62d8cf7339

Date info (Creation)
2020-06-26T05:46:29Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:51:01.14924Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2021 1.6.1
EEA topics

Biodiversity
GEMET

Marine Strategy Framework Directive biodiversity ecosystem environmental policy marine biodiversity marine conservation area marine ecosystem marine environment policy instrument protected marine zone region sea water protection
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Spatial scope

European


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